Study Quotes

• To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

  "Courage: the heart and spirit of every woman : reclaiming the forgotten virtue". Book by Sandra Ford Walston, 2001.

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• Study the Bible to know about God. Obey the Bible to really know God.

  Adrian Rogers

  Knowing God, Knows

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• Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn

  Albert Einstein

  Opportunity, Opportunities To Learn, Duty

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.56, Princeton University Press

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• Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think, and plan.

  W. Clement Stone

  Success, Thinking, Mind

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• Study as if you have not reached your goal - hold it as if you were afraid of losing what you have.

  Confucius

  Learning, Goal, Losing

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• The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ignorance, Funny Exam

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1824). “Posthumous Poems”, p.367

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• To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Success, Nature, Men

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• Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophy, World

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• Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Teaching

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• Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.

  Confucius

  Men, Clothes, Funny Exam

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• Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Life, Stay Strong

  "The Wright Style". Book by Carla Lind, p. 3, 1992.

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• Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

  Samuel Smiles

  Time, Business, Medicine

  Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.389, The Floating Press

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• Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

  Winston Churchill

  Lying, History, Secret

  "Churchill By Himself".

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• Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

  Henry Latham Doherty

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Henry Latham Doherty (1923). “Principles and ideas for Doherty men: papers, addresses and letters”

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• I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

  Juana Inés de la Cruz

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• Study the past, if you would divine the future.

  Confucius

  Change, Time, Philosophical

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• When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.

  Philip James Bailey

  Night, Lamps, Silver

  Philip James Bailey (1848). “Beauties of Festus”, p.112

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• You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

  Anatole France

  Love, Relationship, Faith

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It always seems impossible until its done.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.

  William Ramsay

  Exercise, Doors, Mind

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• Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects.

  Henri Poincare

  Relation, Mathematician, Objects

  "The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare".

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• As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.

  Pliny the Elder

  Exercise, Land, Mind

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• Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Exercise, Science

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.371

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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